Word: microprocessor
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...Bell is looking into miracle chip applications that would turn the family phone into both burglar alarm and fire alarm, as well as home intercom system. Chips will be used to monitor equipment and alert maintenance teams to potential problems before they occur. Says Lee Thomas, Bell Labs' microprocessor chief: "Applications of the microprocessor five years from now will make the present ones look silly." Motorola has invested $20 million in developing a chip-operated portable phone that weighs less than 2 Ibs. and has no cord. Be- ginning in 1979, residents of Washington and Baltimore will be able...
Never mind these quibbles; the year of the microprocessor has given game players the best present of all, an opponent who can be kept in a dresser drawer. What is on the way is not hard to guess: in a couple of years the game player's best friend will be the full-scale home computer...